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[Trump Administration] The First 100 End of Days

AtomikaAtomika Live fast and get fucked or whateverRegistered User regular
edited January 2017 in Debate and/or Discourse
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I'm back, and my fists are getting mighty twitchy for some Nazi punching. This weekend was a spectacular catastrophe for Trump administration, all of it falling to shit less than 48 hours after it started. Let's do the rundown:

- Trump's inaugural ball featured a cake that A) was complete reproduction of President Obama's cake except B) it was cardboard and C) the baker was duped and so she gave her fee to the pro-LGBT Human Rights Council
- Trump's inauguration had a worse turnout than a Mormon kegger
- Trump immediately goes on the thinskinsive defensive and boasts that the crowds were actually the size of, like, all the people in Baltimore.
- Trump gives speech at CIA HQ, says he's, "like, a smart person, you know?"
- Trump is being sued by CREW for failure to disclose conflicts of interest
- Wikileaks is on the hunt for Trump's tax returns
- Sean Spicer takes break from courageous fight against Dippin' Dots to act like a fuckin' idiot the first day on the job, instantly becoming the administration's Baghdad Bob
- Kellyanne Conway creates the term, "Alternative Facts," in attempt to spin Spicer and Trump's false claims and weird obsession with the inaugural crowd size
- I think virtually every cabinet selection is being investigated for criminal charges
- Mitch McConnell retreats into his shell, Lindsey Graham and John McCain follow suit in race to be the most cowardly republican
- Women are fucking awesome
- Millennials are fucking awesome
- You are fucking awesome

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No cynicism. No concern trolling. No discouragin' words. No fartin' in bed 'less you aim to sleep alone.

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    FeralFeral MEMETICHARIZARD interior crocodile alligator ⇔ ǝɹʇɐǝɥʇ ǝᴉʌoɯ ʇǝloɹʌǝɥɔ ɐ ǝʌᴉɹp ᴉRegistered User regular
    Excuse me but I am dating James Joyce

    I will fart in bed and you can't stop me

    every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.

    the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
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    So It GoesSo It Goes We keep moving...Registered User regular
    edited January 2017
    Here is an article about the CREW lawsuit
    http://www.citizensforethics.org/press-release/crew-sues-trump-emoluments/

    Standing under the enoulments clause is going to be tough but they are making a go of it

    So It Goes on
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    knitdanknitdan In ur base Killin ur guysRegistered User regular
    I move that we make Spanish the official language but we still let people use English because learning languages is hard you guys.

    “I was quick when I came in here, I’m twice as quick now”
    -Indiana Solo, runner of blades
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    FeralFeral MEMETICHARIZARD interior crocodile alligator ⇔ ǝɹʇɐǝɥʇ ǝᴉʌoɯ ʇǝloɹʌǝɥɔ ɐ ǝʌᴉɹp ᴉRegistered User regular
    Atomika wrote: »

    this gig economy

    you can't even offer steady employment

    this is why trump won

    every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.

    the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
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    monikermoniker Registered User regular
    His first 100 days will last longer than most if he is serious about taking the weekends off...

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    FeralFeral MEMETICHARIZARD interior crocodile alligator ⇔ ǝɹʇɐǝɥʇ ǝᴉʌoɯ ʇǝloɹʌǝɥɔ ɐ ǝʌᴉɹp ᴉRegistered User regular
    knitdan wrote: »
    I move that we make Spanish the official language but we still let people use English because learning languages is hard you guys.

    If we adopt an official language I really want that language to be Flemish.

    Because Flemish sounds like English spoken by the Swedish Chef after doing a balloon full of nitrous

    every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.

    the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
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    monikermoniker Registered User regular
    moniker wrote: »
    Taramoor wrote: »
    http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/articulo/english/2017/01/22/white-house-removes-website-and-social-media-spanish

    All Spanish-language White House websites and social media accounts taken down.
    Good! Coddling people who refuse to learn the language hurts instead of helping. If I lived in Poland or Egypt I wouldn't expect them to have an English-language version of their website.

    No, it just prevents the efficient access to government services that citizens are entitled to by right. If you got rid of all the Polski forms in Chicago it would just mean more potholes in Jefferson Park.

    Also, Puerto Rico exists.

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    BlackDragon480BlackDragon480 Bluster Kerfuffle Master of Windy ImportRegistered User regular
    I can't guarantee strict adherence to the flatus policy, but I do promise not to dutch oven.

    And I don't hold out much hope for CREW's chances due to the vagueness of the enoulment clause, but I wish them Godspeed in their brave experiment.

    No matter where you go...there you are.
    ~ Buckaroo Banzai
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    AtomikaAtomika Live fast and get fucked or whatever Registered User regular
    Feral wrote: »
    Atomika wrote: »

    this gig economy

    you can't even offer steady employment

    this is why trump won

    nazi punching is great exposure

    get your foot in the door

    then get your foot in their ass

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    davidsdurionsdavidsdurions Your Trusty Meatshield Panhandle NebraskaRegistered User regular
    Point of order: a Mormon kegger would get a shit ton of participants.

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    ForarForar #432 Toronto, Ontario, CanadaRegistered User regular
    Well, it's time to go to bed, and as I look over this thread I'm reminded of how I might wake up to find out that the President of the United States was up at 4am tweeting about porn or belittling SNL's ratings or something.

    Which, fine, keep picking unnecessary fights.

    It's a weird thing to step back and realize every so often.

    But as John Oliver said to close last season; This is NOT normal, it is fucked up.

    So I'm not going to normalize it. I won't live outrage to outrage, but boy, I really hope the D's in the House and Senate and of every stripe in the US are ready to go to the mat when and where it counts.

    First they came for the Muslims, and we said NOT TODAY, MOTHERFUCKER!
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    Gabriel_PittGabriel_Pitt (effective against Russian warships) Registered User regular
    Taramoor wrote: »
    http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/articulo/english/2017/01/22/white-house-removes-website-and-social-media-spanish

    All Spanish-language White House websites and social media accounts taken down.
    Good! Coddling people who refuse to learn the language hurts instead of helping. If I lived in Poland or Egypt I wouldn't expect them to have an English-language version of their website.
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    -or just being a goose.

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    Harry DresdenHarry Dresden Registered User regular
    edited January 2017
    Forar wrote: »
    Well, it's time to go to bed, and as I look over this thread I'm reminded of how I might wake up to find out that the President of the United States was up at 4am tweeting about porn or belittling SNL's ratings or something.

    I wish that was all Trump did on twitter, rather than getting into trade wars with China and pissing off Mexico.

    Harry Dresden on
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    KadokenKadoken Giving Ends to my Friends and it Feels Stupendous Registered User regular
    moniker wrote: »
    moniker wrote: »
    Taramoor wrote: »
    http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/articulo/english/2017/01/22/white-house-removes-website-and-social-media-spanish

    All Spanish-language White House websites and social media accounts taken down.
    Good! Coddling people who refuse to learn the language hurts instead of helping. If I lived in Poland or Egypt I wouldn't expect them to have an English-language version of their website.

    No, it just prevents the efficient access to government services that citizens are entitled to by right. If you got rid of all the Polski forms in Chicago it would just mean more potholes in Jefferson Park.

    Also, Puerto Rico exists.

    Life is all bright in America!
    If you can fight in America!
    Life is alright in America!
    If you're all white in America!

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    ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    edited January 2017
    moniker wrote: »
    moniker wrote: »
    Taramoor wrote: »
    http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/articulo/english/2017/01/22/white-house-removes-website-and-social-media-spanish

    All Spanish-language White House websites and social media accounts taken down.
    Good! Coddling people who refuse to learn the language hurts instead of helping. If I lived in Poland or Egypt I wouldn't expect them to have an English-language version of their website.

    No, it just prevents the efficient access to government services that citizens are entitled to by right. If you got rid of all the Polski forms in Chicago it would just mean more potholes in Jefferson Park.

    Also, Puerto Rico exists.

    More importantly, tourism exists. As do foreigners visiting our country for whatever reason. Government documents are explicitly NOT copyright protected (to oversimplify) so that they can be freely translated, and visiting diplomats/tourists know what the laws are. Completely ceding the creation and management of those translations to outside authorities invites all kinds of awful shit, especially when it's a language a very large chunk of your own populace speaks.

    ArcTangent on
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    OnTheLastCastleOnTheLastCastle let's keep it haimish for the peripatetic Registered User regular
    Why are they so inept on this inauguration thing

    It must just be so the followers are used to disbelieving the media right...? That's their "strategy"

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    Harry DresdenHarry Dresden Registered User regular
    shryke wrote: »
    KetBra wrote: »
    shryke wrote: »
    KetBra wrote: »
    Couscous wrote: »
    http://www.politico.com/blogs/donald-trump-administration/2017/01/breitbart-writer-expected-to-join-white-house-staff-234016
    Julia Hahn, a staff writer at Breitbart News, is expected to join the White House – a move that further underscores Breitbart’s influence in the new administration.

    According to two sources briefed on the move, Hahn’s title will be special assistant to the president and she is expected to primarily work under White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, himself a former key player at Breitbart. Prior to joining Trump’s campaign, Bannon, an outspoken populist and member of the president’s inner circle, was chairman of the conservative website.

    [...]
    There is no way the multiple factions people are building under Trump don't start fighting.

    why do you think spicer is getting thrown under the bus?

    That's not why Spicer is getting burned.

    Spicer is getting burned because no one is buying the bullshit Tantrum Trump is spewing and so he's blaming that on his messenger because the alternative is admitting he was wrong and stupid.

    Spicer is getting burned my the media and public for that, sure.

    I think the leaking indicates there's some behind the scenes maneuvering the White House though

    No, the media is burning Spicer because he said stupid shit. Trump is burning Spicer because the media is saying he said stupid shit.

    Trump being angry that his toadies can't bend reality to their whims, like their master, ensues this administration is going to have continuous in-fighting and this becoming a re-occruing event for any who fail Dear Leader.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Maos82cqguo

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    MuddBuddMuddBudd Registered User regular
    I found this website today, and it intrigues me.

    https://swingleft.org/

    There's no plan, there's no race to be run
    The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
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    DedwrekkaDedwrekka Metal Hell adjacentRegistered User regular
    Worth reposting
    Tube wrote: »
    btw if I even see the words "assassinate" or "assassination" in this thread I'm going to lose my fucking shit, so don't even think about it.

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    FencingsaxFencingsax It is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understanding GNU Terry PratchettRegistered User regular
    Man, does Trump know what optics are?

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    RiusRius Globex CEO Nobody ever says ItalyRegistered User regular
    That dude made it pretty clear he didn't want to shake Trump's hand. Switched his staff to his right hand, avoided eye contact, etc. I would have done the same, methinks.

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    knitdanknitdan In ur base Killin ur guysRegistered User regular
    The dude was holding the staff thing in his right hand, so shaking hands with Trump would be awkward if not impossible (I am not saying he did it on purpose) and Trump saw that and refrained from trying because it would have made him look foolish, especially if it was in fact an intentional excuse to rebuff a handshake from the POTUS.

    “I was quick when I came in here, I’m twice as quick now”
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    a nu starta nu start Registered User regular
    Then shit, he could use that and say "See, I try to reach out. Couldn't give me a simple handshake."

    Number One Tricky
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    RiusRius Globex CEO Nobody ever says ItalyRegistered User regular
    a nu start wrote: »
    Then shit, he could use that and say "See, I try to reach out. Couldn't give me a simple handshake."

    If Trump actually thought that way, he could. What he was probably thinking was "sweet, I don't have to pretend to enjoy shaking that subhuman's hand."

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    kedinikkedinik Captain of Industry Registered User regular
    Yeah that wasn't even really Trump's decision

    I made a game! Hotline Maui. Requires mouse and keyboard.
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    VariableVariable Mouth Congress Stroke Me Lady FameRegistered User regular
    Why are they so inept on this inauguration thing

    It must just be so the followers are used to disbelieving the media right...? That's their "strategy"

    yes and also when we know he lies it's not us catching him... he expects us to know and to see it as a show of strength

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    PhasenPhasen Hell WorldRegistered User regular
    MuddBudd wrote: »
    I found this website today, and it intrigues me.

    https://swingleft.org/

    I used this last week to sign up for email updates I'm in NC-02. I would love to try to do the district leader thing, but I'm not exactly a community leader. Also not great with being a social butterfly and really dont know what its all about. I would like to do something though.

    psn: PhasenWeeple
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    TaramoorTaramoor Storyteller Registered User regular
    My only problem with that site is the data seems weird.

    I live in WA-8.

    Dave Reichert ran basically unopposed and still barely won. This district is totally flippable, but that site's telling me to drive to Alaska.

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    KaputaKaputa Registered User regular
    Wait, wikileaks is really offering monies for Trump's returns?

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    MuddBuddMuddBudd Registered User regular
    Taramoor wrote: »
    My only problem with that site is the data seems weird.

    I live in WA-8.

    Dave Reichert ran basically unopposed and still barely won. This district is totally flippable, but that site's telling me to drive to Alaska.

    contact them and help them correct it? I am not sure where they get all the data, there's obviously a lot to go through

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    VeeveeVeevee WisconsinRegistered User regular
    edited January 2017
    Dedwrekka wrote: »
    Worth reposting
    Tube wrote: »
    btw if I even see the words "assassinate" or "assassination" in this thread I'm going to lose my fucking shit, so don't even think about it.

    And not just the use of those words will get you banned. Don't even joke about advocating for the death of anyone, but especially any public figure. Some of us work in government, and even being associated with someone who makes this kind of crass joke can cost someone a job.

    Learn from mcdermott's mistake and in doing so it'll help keep you off the lists we know are out there, and help your fellow posters not lose their job by visiting this forum.

    Edit: I've seen messages within right wing social media urging people to report everything they see that could be interpreted as a threat against anyone in the administration. You do not want the secret service knocking on your door

    Veevee on
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    WotanAnubisWotanAnubis Registered User regular

    Considering this guy is an actual Nazi, I wonder if he wants his anti-antifa vigilantes to dress up in brown shirts.

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    OrcaOrca Also known as Espressosaurus WrexRegistered User regular
    edited January 2017

    Considering this guy is an actual Nazi, I wonder if he wants his anti-antifa vigilantes to dress up in brown shirts.

    Like I said, there's no way the shirts will be brown, like an immigrant's.

    Nah, they'll be white. They'll look like this:

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    Much classier!

    Orca on
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    agoajagoaj Top Tier One FearRegistered User regular
    Veevee wrote: »
    Dedwrekka wrote: »
    Worth reposting
    Tube wrote: »
    btw if I even see the words "assassinate" or "assassination" in this thread I'm going to lose my fucking shit, so don't even think about it.

    And not just the use of those words will get you banned. Don't even joke about advocating for the death of anyone, but especially any public figure. Some of us work in government, and even being associated with someone who makes this kind of crass joke can cost someone a job.

    Learn from mcdermott's mistake and in doing so it'll help keep you off the lists we know are out there, and help your fellow posters not lose their job by visiting this forum.

    Edit: I've seen messages within right wing social media urging people to report everything they see that could be interpreted as a threat against anyone in the administration. You do not want the secret service knocking on your door

    The Secret Service has proved themselves to be extremely good at their job, and because of that I've won a bet that Obama would survive his terms in office.

    Now I just have to remember who I made that bet with.

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    FeralFeral MEMETICHARIZARD interior crocodile alligator ⇔ ǝɹʇɐǝɥʇ ǝᴉʌoɯ ʇǝloɹʌǝɥɔ ɐ ǝʌᴉɹp ᴉRegistered User regular

    Considering this guy is an actual Nazi, I wonder if he wants his anti-antifa vigilantes to dress up in brown shirts.

    soooooooo he admits that the people who hate him are antifa

    does he really think that's going to work in his favor in the long run?

    every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.

    the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
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    autono-wally, erotibot300autono-wally, erotibot300 love machine Registered User regular

    Considering this guy is an actual Nazi, I wonder if he wants his anti-antifa vigilantes to dress up in brown shirts.

    Exactly my thought

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturmabteilung

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    Undead ScottsmanUndead Scottsman Registered User regular
    Taramoor wrote: »
    My only problem with that site is the data seems weird.

    I live in WA-8.

    Dave Reichert ran basically unopposed and still barely won. This district is totally flippable, but that site's telling me to drive to Alaska.

    Which dumb, because the only way Don Young is getting out of that seat is if he retires or dies, and not a day sooner.

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